I found a huge can of something in my basement, WTF?!

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The message is spreading

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When he is finished with cubane?

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Obscure energetic tetrazine compound from the old literature...Tom, please make this when you're done with cubane! The proposed synthesis is a bit ridiculous...

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The Legend James Cambell Summarizes Himself in One Comment.

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DMSO is supposedly explosive? might just be another one of those theoretical/large-scale hazards that are disappointingly unspectacular on a lab scale, like that Aluminum/Carbon Tet thing

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Gotta make you understand

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The man, the myth, the legend James Campbell is back! (Note: watch that acetone peroxide video Jesus fucking Christ look at that GLASS jar filled to the top with acetone peroxide he just casually scrapes out a chunk and tests it at least he has dampened it tho I guess)

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Title

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Trying to put on gloves when your hands are slightly sweaty

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Benzene strikes again

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My first product I made completely on my own at my internship

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Took an even deeper dive into the legend himself, James Campbell. Maybe he should invest in some plastic cups.

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Am I apart of the gang yet?

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since everyone is hyped about carbon tetrachloride, i managed to go through my lab and found this bad boy.

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This guy made uranium tetrachloride.

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Next episode?

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The ultimate energetic compound. 100% nitrogen, not even a single atom of carbon.

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Was helping clean out my Grandpa's house and found the motherlode

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If I ever want to deplete the ozone, I know where to go...

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Had the cops show up at my door at 1030 pm tonight over this picture i posted on my facebook an old teacher (whos a drunk and pot head) called and said i was a national secuirty threat

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carbon tet in my uni design textbook

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Got 100ml of bromine for like 5 dollars never thought it's was this cheap time for some bromination of tetrazoles mate

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Only about 20% conversion, but it did work

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this is how my attempt at the internship should look like. really ugly

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Fucking yellow chemistry back at it again. Nothing greets you better back in the lab after quarantine

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Welcome to cancer heaven my friends

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holy fuck

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tet gang? its the fluorinated brother of carbon tet. Altough somewhat pressurized its still boiling and creating frost outside the container.

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Bro wtf is trichloroethylene doing 🤯🤯

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Tet Gang

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Mmm tasty

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r/weirdlookingsoupcans

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Am I in the gang now?

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Sooo apparently you can just buy carbon tet online in india.

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Does anyone remember what this one frame joke said before Tom (aka The Coward) added this blur? I just noticed it and now I have to know

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So we took inventory lately...

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I found some sacred tet in the back of the chem drawer and our teacher let me have a sample (FUCK YEAH) tet gang please

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Insanely yellow Picric Acid crystals

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Does this contain carbon tet?

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Found it while cleaning out an old laboratory. Guess I can join the tet gang too

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The hardware store employee told me my state banned the import and sale of Toluene, only allowing stores to sell of existing stocks. That was 2018. I may have the last two legally purchased gallons of Toluene in all of Colorado!

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Today I learnt that James Young Simpson (that chloroform man) has also experimented with carbon tetrachloride as anaesthetic.

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Possible Test?

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Will tet gang accept me if it’s from ligma Aldrich?

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Carbon tetroxide?

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An ad from 1912, I wonder what Benzinoform was...

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Joining the Tet Bandwagon

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Couple of bottles of these lying around my lab

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New tet arrived

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What would result from mixing those elements? Just curious, I'm not a chemist just a food scientist who's lurking in this SR. If it's a ridiculously dumb question just say that no offense taken.

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Watching the sodium nickel periodate video. Gotta love YouTube's auto-generated cc.

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nice yellow TeCA (1-1-2-2 Tetrachloroethane)

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YELLOW!!! 😡🤬😡🤬😡

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Triple soxhlet extraction of garlic with methanol. So much glass in one picture. Thanks for the inspiration to get into chemistry, Tom!

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ahhhh shit, thanks sigma

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Was going through my dads things today as he’s passed away and I found a souvenir that his father (my grandpa) had gotten at some point.

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Found some juice at my internship.

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The Piss Jar

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I don’t know why, but I feel like Tom should make a video about this molecule. Definitely no specific reason at all.

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Some anq shenanigans

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Good sogn when your package has both of these stickers!

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Yeah I have 50kg of carbon Tet in my kitchen, what about it 😎

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Most vibrant Yellow. Prove me wrong

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Got some Dibromotetrafluoroethane!

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Bit of a tense moment today when this (a saturated picric acid solution) was found in a kitchen far away from the lab

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tet gang?

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Which of those 3 you like most?

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Continuing the list of chemicals you can find at Home Depot...

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My DCM arrived, how long does this stuff keep? I have a feeling I might have enough for a while

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Hot Take of the Day

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*whistling to myself innocently while searching SciFinder for a chlorocyclohexane prep* ...mmmmcome again?!

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Main channel is now just 'Explosions&Fire' (not 'Explosions&Fire2'... probably confused a few people). And the logo's been updated for the first time, to the beautiful 7-membered Benzene ring. Nearing 100k subs!!

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I just found this while deleting old pictures

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Tetra(azido)methane

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Happy holidays! This is a snowman made out of potassium bromide and bits of electrical wire.

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If only it wasn't 225 USD

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I just found out that there is an online store that sells 96% sulfuric without any verification at all... kind of concerning tbh

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An amusing anecdote from Ignition! by John D. Clark

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Sounds like a challenge for Season 2! ^^

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Found this abomination on Discord

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A better stain remover than gasoline!

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What is this, a chlorate cell for ants?

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Can I be part of the tet gang? I have this vial of pressurized liquid carbon TETrafluoride. Does that count? Or does it have to be carbon tetrachloride?

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Whoops ICl3 + NH4OH —> Yellow NCl3 = bad

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Nitration of MEKP???? Please try this Explosions&Fire

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*confusion*

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As Promised: The Tiny Chlorate cell running.

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Kill me

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Spotted in a Polish antique shop

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I’m sure this will draw some ire...

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So I made a ketene lamp and just had to share somewhere! Ketene, or more specifically ethenone, is used to produce acetic anhydride by passing it through glacial acetic acid.

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Boron #92

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Anyone need a uhh... ?

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new video out in 12 hours or so! Here's a meme from the future

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Fun fact: the original Explosions and Fire channel still has a stats page on SocialBlade. At the time of obliviation, the channel had 79 videos and 8.22k subs.

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Making a photolysis cell from scratch

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Halloween is coming 🎃🎃

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Me watching the YouTube Algorithm blow my channel up

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Heard y’all like CCl4

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Is it a good thing or a bad thing that you are a wikipedia source

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Damn they really must have loved carbon tet back in the 60s

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Be James Cambell : see small spider : get terrified and run away.... See an ounce of TATP in glass container : decide to light it with a lighter. Mixed up priorities?

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Made creatinium chlorate from creatine, NaClO3 and oxalic acid

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Explosive plant

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What do you think about this? Is this true?

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Need some Carbon Tet mailed to you?? (Don't do this)

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Dilemmas...

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What kind of electrochemistry could I do with this bad boy?

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How would you clean this flask? Details in comments

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Stir plate after 4 years at a trap lab

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Carbon Tetrachloride

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OP says he got some on his face. Lol

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Friendly reminder you can find more than just carbon tet at antique stores!

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Babe, wake up new carbon tetrachloride lore dropped..! You said what's next, bathing in carbon tetrachloride? previous time. Well, I got news for ya!

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Possibly energetic phosphonium salt

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Does CBr4 count?

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Found some old rust remover containing tetrachloroethylene

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First Sodium Chlorate out of my chlorate cell

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Yield of Potassium Chlorate from that previous thread.

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I think I finally understand why you hate yellow chemistry

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1960's soviet lab Chernobyl

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What's been your best find at an antiques store? Here's me coming across my future dessicator, soxhlet extractor and more

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Tetrachlormethan and bromochloromethane, thanks to u/JB-2101 to give me a link for the extinguisher

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I was mucking about in ChemDraw and made this cursed molecule, opinions?

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Is this a legit 'vintage' fire extinguisher?

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How do I synthesize glacial acetic acid

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Cheap glassware

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Explosive polymers pt. 2?

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Ran two distillations at once last weekend, felt groovy

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Well, at least the weather turned out great!, I said, having added the phosphorus and half a funnel to a stirred mixture of iodine and methyl alcohol.

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made some conc. sulfuric acid from 30% battery stuff!

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Another one – to anyone who speaks Portuguese, what were they using CARBON TETRACHLORIDE for?

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Ex&F is mentioned in wikipedia article for CCl4 :0 also there is a song about huffing carbon tet lol (lmao even)

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Video idea for Tom?

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peak carbon tet was in 1977, peak combined carbon tet and Carbon Tet was in 1955

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Rate my makeshift Dean-Stark setup

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Every pathway idea

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What does ClF3 do to cawbon tetwachwowide??

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I need help

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Electrolysis of sodium chlorate

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My dad talked about this strange object with liquid in a small hotel shampoo bottle. I found it, smelt it and guess what... THAT'S A HAIRBALL IN ETHER

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cursed_nitrogen

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There is a Trans-Flag in his newest videos background and i was so happy to see it <3

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